Articles Archive for 2 July 2004
Information and Communications Technology »
Yesterday I started writing about the ICT for development meeting I was at held at ICRISAT at Hyderabad earlier this week. The usual suspects were in attendance. I had met many of them at the MS Swaminathan Policy Makers’ Conference at Chennai a few months ago. One face new to me was Prof Ken Keniston of MIT who gave an opening address.
He made five cautionary points which are worth noting. They are:
Do not get seduced by ICT
Localize, localize, localize
Do realistic …



